Jacci and I have two cats: Monster, who is 11lbs. and 13 months old and Everest, who is a siameae at ~13 weeks old. Monster is a longhair and a cross between an alley cat and a promiscuous mother. Pictures later, although there is a picture posted somewhere on here of Everest when he was about 6 weeks old.

Me too. I need to google up some recipes... Mwahahaha...

Hey Ashley: nice legs! :)

Ok I confesss...I have 6 cats. All special in their own rights. I take pics of them and leave them on my camera on multi day trips, to remember them. Do I do that with my wife? No. Anyways I have a Norwegian Woods cat that looks quite like a Main Coon. He is the personality of our neighborhood.

OK, I'll man up here and admit I don't like cats. However, I married into them 25 years ago, so I've gotten pretty used to them. Had to get a new kitten a few months ago, when the neighborhood coyotes ate my daughter's cat (or so we think, may have been a fox). I have never seen another cat like this kitten. It likes to sleep under the covers, it learned to fetch, and if you open a cabinet in the kitchen anywhere, it jumps in it, no matter how high. And speaking of how high, I think it's a catnip junkie.

Edited by skinewmexico on 04/09/2009 13:00:58 MDT.

Joe - it sounds like a certain feline is winning you over. :)

Joe,

our 3-legged Kiki is just like your kitten (she's the orange kitty testing out my mariposa pack above), only she opens cupboards & drawers herself & climbs in.

after her accident about 5 years ago, we put in a cat fence - cats can now enjoy the backyard, but they can't get out to find trouble with cars, coyotes, dogs, weirdos or other hazards. been a great investment for us & them.

www.catfence.com
www.catfencein.com
www.purrfectfence.com (by far the best & what we have now - in the fence pic above, purrfectfence is backing the bamboo & hanging over the top of it)

Edited by cbert on 04/09/2009 13:12:54 MDT.

Cary, how do you like the Catfence???? I have 3 inside cats that want so badly to explore our backyard. Our other 3 are outside during the day and then sleep in our garage (closed door too) at night. I would love to make a perimiter

nevermind Carry, a great idea, but my neighbors would not dig the fence

mine is an amalgam - i used the brackets from the system we got from www.catfencein.com. we'd used that system at our previous house that had an existing wood fence & no overhanging trees. the brackets are good, but the netting for this system is not very durable.

i found a heavy guage deer netting at lowes & made a run in one side yard using bamboo poles for supports & rolls of that grass fencing to cover the fence side - so that side yard has a netting roof.

the pool & trees behind it presented a real challenge. what i did was put purrfectfence just inside the fenceline along the sides of the pool, then angled it in to overhang the pool about a foot along the back edge - so the trees in the yard behind the pool are fenced off from the rest of the yard (i have a gate for access). I then fronted the purrfectfence with expensive bamboo panels to make it more attractive. the other side yard is purrfectfence along th e existing fence with rolled grass/bamboo fencing for a facing.

the purrfectfence is expensive, but should last 20+ years, even in our hot summers. it's pretty easy to work with, too - everything connects with plastic zip ties.